24. август 2027.
Tuesday of the 10th week after Pentecost

No Fast

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)
New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)
Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

Scripture Readings

1 Corinthians 15.29-38 (Epistle)

29Šta dakle èine oni koji se krste mrtvijeh radi? Kad mrtvi jamaèno ne ustaju, što se i kršæavaju mrtvijeh radi? 30I mi zašto podnosimo muke i nevolje svaki èas? 31Svaki dan umirem, tako mi, braæo, vaše slave, koju imam u Hristu Isusu Gospodu našemu. 32Jer ako sam se po èovjeku borio sa zvjerovima u Efesu, kaka mi je korist ako mrtvi ne ustaju? Da jedemo i pijemo, jer æemo sutra umrijeti. 33Ne varajte se: zli razgovori kvare dobre obièaje. 34Otrijeznite se jedanput kao što treba, i ne griješite; jer neki ne znadu za Boga, na sramotu vama kažem. 35Ali æe reæi ko: kako æe ustati mrtvi? i u kakom æe tijelu doæi? 36Bezumnièe! ti što siješ neæe oživljeti ako ne umre. 37I što siješ ne siješ tijelo koje æe biti, nego golo zrno, bilo pšenièno ili drugo kako. 38A Bog mu daje tijelo kako hoæe, i svakom sjemenu svoje tijelo.

Matthew 21.23-27 (Gospel)

23I kad doðe u crkvu i stade uèiti, pristupiše k njemu glavari sveštenièki i starješine narodne govoreæi: kakvom vlasti to èiniš? i ko ti dade vlast tu? 24A Isus odgovarajuæi reèe im: i ja æu vas upitati jednu rijeè, koju ako mi kažete, i ja æu vama kazati kakvom vlasti ovo èinim. 25Krštenje Jovanovo otkuda bi? ili s neba, ili od ljudi? A oni pomišljavahu u sebi govoreæi: ako reèemo: s neba, reæi æe nam: zašto mu dakle ne vjerovaste? 26Ako li reèemo: od ljudi, bojimo se naroda; jer svi Jovana držahu za proroka. 27I odgovarajuæi Isusu rekoše: ne znamo. Reèe i on njima: ni ja vama neæu kazati kakvom vlasti ovo èinim.

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)

He was a disciple and friend of St John the Theologian, and worked with the Apostle Paul, and is himself named as an Apostle though he is not one of the Seventy. He travelled widely in the ministry of the Gospel of Christ, suffering many imprisonments and tortures. He died in Sebastia, the place of his birth. The Prologue says that he was beheaded, the Great Horologion that he reposed in peace “in deep old age.”

New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)

This recent Equal to the Apostles was born in Mega Dendron (Great Tree) in Aetolia. He became a monk on Mt Athos, where he lived and prayed for many years. But he was troubled by the ignorance of the Gospel that had fallen on many of the Orthodox people, living under the oppression of the Ottoman Turks. He went to Constantinople, where he studied the rhetorical arts and received the blessing of Patriarch Seraphim II to preach the Gospel. He travelled throughout Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Albania, preaching at every town he visited. Often not only Greeks but many Muslims would come to hear him, so great was his reputation for holiness. Though he always sought the blessing of the local bishop and the local Turkish governor before he preached in an area, his strong condemnations of dishonest business practices aroused the enmity of Orthodox Christian and Jewish merchants, who falsely accused him to the authorities. He was strangled by the Turks and thrown into a river in Albania, but his wonderworking relics were preserved. He reposed at the age of sixty-five.

Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

See December 21 for his life.